Industry Of Euglsh Women

An English travcler wiites : I can as■ure you that, having lived in different castles and manor-houses in Great Britain, and beon accustoraed to tbc iudustrious habits of ducbessos and countesses, I was utterly astonished at tho idlcness of American fine ladies ! No Englisb woman of rank (with the exception of a. fow parvenúes) froin the Queen dowuward, would remain for one half hour uneraployed, or sit in a rocking-chair, unless soriously ill. They almost all, with hardly an exception, copy the business letters of their husbands, fathers or brothers, attend minutely to the wanta of the poor around thein, and even take part in their amusements and sympathize with their eorrows ; visit and superintend tho schools; work in their own gardens ; see to their hougehold concerns ; thiuk about their visitors; look over the weokly accounts not only of domestic expenses, but often thoeo of the farm and the estáte ; manage penny clubs in conjunction with the working classes, to help them to keep themselves; and with all these occupations, by early hours, they keep up their acquaintance with the litorature and politics of tho day, and cultívate tho accomplishments of musio and drawing, and often acquire besides some knowledgo of scientitio pursuits. The late Marchioness of Landsdowne was so wcll acquainted with the cottagers in her neighborhood, that she uscd to visit and look at tho corpses of the dead, bocause she found that her doing so soothed and coiaforted the bereaved. I have known her to shut horself up with a mad wom:m in her poor dwelling, who used to lock the door, and could not be induced to adiuit any one else. Lady Landsdowne's only daughter used once one hundred guineas (given hor by her father-in-law, Lord Suffolk, to buy a bracelet) to build pig-sties, with his permission, at her husband's little country residenoe. She educates hor own children without assistance - teachi ng tho boys Latín and the girls all the usual branches of education. The late Duchess of Bedford, I accidentally discovered when on a visit to Moburn, had, for thirty years of hor married life, risen at six o'clook, summer and winter, lit her own firo, made some tea for the duke aud herself, aud then, as he wrote his own letters of business, she copied them, and they camo down to a large party of guesta at ten o'clock, to dispense breakfast, without saying one word of their matutinary avocations, so that you might have been a visitor in. the house without finding out that the duke uud duchess had transactod tho business of the day - before, perhaps, you had risen ! I rather mention those that are gone to their reward than writo of women still amongstus; but you may believe mo when I say I am constantly amongst thoss who live such lives of energy and usefulnoss, but they so enjoy themselves without ostentation, oran idea that they ara doing more tkan their ainiplc duty;